No, the current ban is because they invaded Ukraine during the Olympic truce. The doping ban was on specific athletes I believe.

Totally not a bubble though.

You mean assist with Israel’s ethnic cleansing?

They’re violating the Olympic truce.

They banned Russia for it. Why not Israel?

China is driving the vast majority of the region’s market, with over 290,000 units installed in the country in 2022. With over 550,000 robots installed worldwide in 2022 - the highest number on record (+5 percent from 2021) - every other robot installed globally was in China that year.

China blowing everyone out of the water every single year lol

A war between Taiwan and China would absolutely become a World War.

Reunification can be peaceful like it was with Hong Kong.

Reunification will happen, like Hong Kong.

I don’t remember Hong Kong starting WW3 though. 🤔

The United goddamn States is not fucking standing up to tyranny lol

Hamas didn’t create Zionism lol

Arming Taiwan is a pathway to war.

To clarify, I didn’t say to ban the ingredient itself, just foods with added sugars i.e. sugar-sweetened beverages, sugary snacks and junk food, sugary breakfast cereals, etc. We’re talking about this in context of the tax, which doesn’t ban raw bags of sugar.

If someone wants a teaspoon of sugar in their coffee at home then whatever, that’s not the source of the public health crisis. The problem is from convenience and processed foods. We could solve the problem. We won’t.

Not what I said.

I said I prefer a ban instead of a tax. A tax just bans sugar for the poor. A ban effects everyone, so it’s fair and more effective.

But also, the optimum solution instead of a tax or a ban would be to make people’s lives better so they don’t kill themselves.

Well to start, everything that’s included in this sugar tax. Does anyone really need this garbage?

But really, it’s more important to give people lives that are good so they don’t get sucked in to unhealthy behaviors.

Give people something to live for any they won’t kill themselves.

That’s why I favor outright banning added sugars, or even better, improve their lives so much that they don’t want to fill the void with sugar.

Honestly if so-called AI didn’t burn down a kilometer of rain forest every time it generated a picture of an ape I’d be 100% okay with it. I do not care about intellectual property or petty bouj concerns about artists losing their ability to profit from their labor.

Get proletarianized lol 🤷‍♀️

Quick, more money for the military!

As we see here, obesity and very low body weight are both associated with worse mental health outcomes. Merely being overweight, interestingly, seems to be associated with better mental health outcomes. This tracts, being overweight isn’t necessarily associated with the kinds of unhealthy or dangerous behavior that obesity is - that’s just a problem of quantity rather than quality.

IANAD but I think obesity is the real killer.

People don’t just randomly make the decision to live, they need to have things for which to live.

You’re right, taxing sugar isn’t an answer. Banning it is better, somewhat, but it’s still not the best solution.

The best solution is to make people want to stop eating like shit and stop killing themselves. I called obesity deaths “deaths of despair” because it’s really not much different from any other unhealthy/dangerous behavior be that drug abuse, self harm, etc. Screaming “make the decision to live” at people is kinda fucking stupid lol

People in despair don’t care about much at all. Nevermind this shit is addictive, psychologically manipulative, it also acts as a little dopamine hit in an otherwise miserable life. Obesity deaths are deaths of despair.

Imagine if people wanted to live.

So uh, sounds like it’s not just Netanyahu holding up the deal but the entire right-wing coalition. Getting rid of Bibi won’t fix this, their government is just like this.